Install some web-available system monitoring software on appliances

[JedMeister]

This issue is a split from #218 (which suggests phpSysInfo).

Current options:

These are current frontrunners but more suggestions are welcome.

phpSysInfo - in deb repos
lightweight single page(?) info; minimal config, provides API

Monit - in deb repos
provides web view, highly configurable, can also provide alerts etc, perhaps a better option?

Questions that need to be answered (decided):

• Should it be on all appliance (i.e. part of Core)?
• Should the WebUI be available from a port (i.e. like Webshell,Webmin,etc)?

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[JedMeister]

My feeling is that we should go with Monit and that the answer to the questions is 'yes' & 'yes; port 12323' respectively! 😄

[markkrueg]

Wow, Monit looks amazing. I really like the proactive features they suggest on the website. I'm going to test it on one of my TurnKey VMs now where I have a server task that often "freezes". If it can fix that sort of thing automatically it will be extremely valuable to TurnKey users.

Yes it should be part of Core; and it should have its own web port. ...as long as it's not too "heavy".

[JedMeister]

I haven't looked into it to much but one of the guys that is helping out with the v14.0 update suggested it. It appears to be quite lightweight and highly configurable...